A mother and daughter who sued the city of Forest Grove over an illegal traffic stop won more than $42,000 in a settlement.

Debra Bianchi and her adult daughter, Jennifer Meade, filed the suit earlier this year in federal court against the city, Forest Grove Police Chief Kerry Aleshire, Sgt. Dean Foster, officers Jason Moser and Scott King and an unidentified officer.

Paul Downey, Forest Grove's finance director, said last week the city agreed to pay the women $42,752.

The case arose from a June 17, 2010, incident in which officers mistook Bianchi and Meade's vehicle for that of suspected gang members.

The women's lawyer, Andrew Kohlmetz, said last week the settlement was a good result for all parties.

"It was clear in our minds that the officers at the scene had done something pretty terribly wrong," he said. "It was a fair settlement for what happened and what I viewed to be the substantial risk for the city and the officers."

Searching for suspects involved in a reported gang fight at Grande Foods in Cornelius, police used lights and sirens to stop Meade, who was driving a Chevrolet Suburban. Meade's mother and two young children were also in the vehicle.

Dispatch twice radioed the license plate for the suspect vehicle, a white GMC Yukon, according to documents from an internal investigation. When Officer Moser stopped Meade's white Suburban, he did not radio or run her plate. Before the stop, the documents say, a Cornelius officer advised that no crime had occurred at the store.

Officer Foster pointed an assault rifle at the Suburban throughout the stop, the complaint alleges. The officers shouted at Meade and ordered her to walk backwards toward them with her hands on her head. She complied, and officers then patted her down.

Officers then ordered Bianchi out of the vehicle, according to the complaint, and forcibly searched her.

Meade's children, ages 3 and 1, remained alone in the vehicle. Kohlmetz said neither Meade nor Bianchi was cited or arrested in connection with the incident.

The lawsuit sought damages on grounds of Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations, assault and battery, false arrest and negligence. The plaintiffs also sued on a claim of intentionally inflicted emotional distress, alleging the defendants' actions amounted to an "extraordinary transgression of the bounds of socially tolerable conduct," the complaint says.

Forest Grove Capt. Jeffrey Williams, who is now a Beaverton police captain, first wrote that he planned to terminate Moser after reviewing the investigation's findings, according to a memorandum from the captain to the officer. Williams later changed Moser's discipline to a 24-hour suspension without pay after he received a written response from the officer and talked with a police union attorney and representative, the documents show.

Moser resigned in September 2010 from the Forest Grove department and was hired by the Cornelius Police Department, where he is currently employed.

Williams found that Foster failed to provide proper supervision in allowing a high-risk style traffic stop "and use of force against citizens who were not associated with any known criminal activity," documents say. Foster received a letter of reprimand, and Williams wrote that he planed to provide him with risk-management training. The documents show that Williams exonerated King of any wrongdoing.